This is a great initiative, but there's a lot of room for improvement. There are two big things that would increase the odds of adoption for a set like this:
- Remove the containing boxes. The boxes hurt legibility because every icon has the same silhouette, and also makes it difficult for the icons to scale down well because the boxes occupy unnecessary space. - Ensure the icons are legible at small sizes. Right now, there are many fine details that get lost when scaled down to the size these would be displayed on the map at (>=20px x 20px). I would make an effort to reduce the dependency on multiple symbols to get your concepts across. For example, why is the chess board icon two people under a tent, beside a chess board? This would work much better as a single symbol, like a chess Rook or a simplified board. On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < [email protected]> wrote: > re: license: > "The original SJJB icons as well as the icons newly designed are provided > under the CC-0 license and therefore can be used for any commercial or non > commercial mapping application. > (...) Some of the icons I found in the OSM wiki have another license. > Please respect that." http://osm-icons.org/wiki/Icons#License_of_the_icons > > -J > > -- > [email protected] * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +505-8845-3391 > (Nicaragua) > * Voice(mail) / SMS / What's app: +1-202-730-9778 * > http://about.me/jaakkoh > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:23 PM, wn reader <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> what license are the icons? also cc-0 as SJJB? >> >> Marc >> >> Markus Semm schrieb: >> >> Hi all, >>> >>> a set of more than 1000 POI icons for OSM maps and OSM editors has been >>> released today. >>> >>> The main purpose of this icon set is >>> a) covering all OSM POI tags with at least 1000 occurrences according to >>> TAGINFO >>> b) provision of the most common key-value combinations for each icon >>> c) assignment of each icon to one or multiple map feature groups >>> >>> This icon set can be used for the following purposes: >>> a) integration into existing or future OSM editors >>> b) to display POIs on any OSM map >>> >>> My hope is receiving some feedback from the community in order to >>> further improve this icon set including the related metadata. >>> >>> The icon set can be downloaded here: http://osm-icons.org >>> >>> Thank you very much in advance for your feedback! >>> Cheers Markus >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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